CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-15923

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Konversation versions 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.x, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 are vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) attack due to improper parsing of IRC color formatting codes.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to remotely crash the application, potentially leading to service downtime.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Konversation to version 1.7.3 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Konversation 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.x, and 1.7.x before 1.7.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to parsing of IRC color formatting codes.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS